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—Guilfordian, February 8, 1984
Letters
Recycling
To the Editors,
This is an open letter to the
Guilford College community. In
his 1981 inaugural address, Dr.
William R. Rogers outlined five
pressing issues that he challeng
ed society to face in this century:
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resources, problems of the en
vironment, consequences of the
electronic revolution, and
psychological anomie. It's a pret
ty tall order. Further, we all have
to sit through classes and listen to
the professor lecture about the
horrors of nuclear war, world
hunger, mass poverty, juvenile
delinquency, a host of other
social ills, pollution, and urban
decay.
Most of us, I would hope, share
a concern for these global pro
blems. Yet, where do we fit in?
When we contemplate the impact
a single individual may have on
these forces, seemingly distant,
difficult to grasp, and out of our
hands, we feel powerless to effect
change and action appears futile
or not worth attempting. Is there,
then, nothing we can do?
Addressing at least the en
vironmental problems, Biophile
Club of Guilford College (an
organization which has tradi
tionally dealt with the relation
ship between man and his en
vironment), believing that the
combined efforts of many are
more powerful than those of the
component individuals, has at
tempted to combat this apathy
through the instituting of a cam
puswide recycling program.
Let me state from the outset
the importance of this matter.
Recycling is one of the soundest
environmental practices known.
It both saves energy, and con
serves the earth's finite amount
of resources. We may one day be
able to recover asteroids from
space to supply our metals, but
until this future time, we must
conserve available supplies. Fur
ther, there is a limited amount of
land for use as landfill to bury the
tons of garbage we generate,
most of which is recoverable.
Half of all garbage is paper in one
form or another, and another 25%
are metals, mostly cans. Recycl
ing means landfills don't fill up as
fast and land can be put to better
use. Already this is such a pro
blem in places like New York Ci
ty that garbage must be hauled
out to sea, an immensely expen
sive proposition.
For the moment, Biophile is
concerning itself with the
recovering of newspapers and
aluminum cans, two very easily
recyclable materials. There are
currently boxes in all the dorms
on campus on each floor that are
clearly marked for this with the
Biophile logo. (If there is any
doubt as to which cans are accep
table, it must say something like
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All Aluminum Can on the side.
Also the bottom of non-aluminum
cans has a dull, rather than shiny
appearance.) Think about this:
melting old cans down saves 95%
of the energy it takes to process
the equivalent amount from raw
ore, and for each ton of paper
recycled, twenty trees are saved.
Hopefully these boxes will not be
abused and/or used for trash in
general. Collections are made
weekly.
I realize we all have "more im
portant" things to think about
(this writer included) being in
college than what happens to the
garbage out in the hall. It is so
easy to put the problem out of our
minds - it merely requires we
don't think about it. The adage
"out of sight, out of mind" seems
to apply here. However, I'd like
to issue a challenge to each one of
you to force yourself into a higher
consciousness. Break out of the
narrow confines of your im
mediate environment of time and
space and look to the long term,
to the problems this planet will
face, as Dr. Rogers states, in this
century and beyond, and accept
your responsibility to them.
Recycling may only be a small
part of this, but its importance
cannot be overlooked. A few
other things to consider: it takes
just a second to take just one
napkin from the dispensers in the
cafeteria rather than grab a
handful, which will be wasted.
Not turning the knobs tightly
after a shower means wasting
several hundred (yes, hundred)
gallons of water per day not to
mention the energy it took to heat
it. The simple act of taking a few
extra steps down the hall to
deposit the cans from last night's
party and last week's
newspapers seems trivial, but its
implications are significant.
When multiplied on a cam
puswide or communitywide scale
for that matter, it becomes
powerful.
Sincerely,
Emily C. Bonk
Biophile Club
Indians still
being shafted
Civiifius Digest News Service
Things have been rough for
native Americans since the
coming of reservations, but
for the nation's 750,000 living
on reservations today, life's
becoming even rougher.
Reaganomics cut a number
of government jobs in
January, adding to staggering
unemployment like the 60 per
cent out of work at the
Cheyenne River Reservation
in South Dakota.
Lack of work contributes to
other problems at the nation's
260 reservations: housing
waiting lists, a shortage of
medical stalls, and alcohol
and drug abuse.
Reaganomics hopes to
lessen the hurt by luring
private industry to the reser
vations, a proposal which is
met with divided optimism by
both businessmen and Indians.
Fund-Raising
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more for their services.
Philanthropic support af
fects education before students
reach the collegiate level, too.
California schools are depen
ding more and more on fund
raising since the state Supreme
Court ruled that equal
amounts should be spent on
students and Proposition 13
reduced property tax funds. In
California, 123 private foun
dations are involved in
money-making for schools.
Some ot the benefits realized
by schools from fund-raising
include buying computers and
other technologically advanc
ed equipment, keeping alive
"luxury" courses such as those
in music and art, preventing
layoffs, and maintaining ac
tivities and programs in
general.
Many people are asking, in
these times of increased
private support for even
public institutions, whether
fund-raising will widen the
gap between rich and poor
school districts—perhaps
changing the nature of public
institutions themselves.